It has long been known that U.S. authorities use unmanned aerial drones to patrol the nearly 2,000-mile U.S./Mexico border. However, a recent report by FOX News‘ William La Jeunesse reveals the U.S. is engaging in aerial surveillance over Mexican soil–manned
Police have detained a drug cartel operator in northern Mexico suspected of being responsible for the killing of more than 350 people found in 23 clandestine graves, authorities said Thursday. Mario Nunez Meza, 39, was captured on Wednesday in Ciudad
By ANTONIO ALEJANDRO VILLEGASAssociated PressVILLAHERMOSA, MexicoA notorious cargo train known as “the Beast” and carrying at least 250 Central American hitchhiking migrants derailed in a remote region of southern Mexico on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 17,
By KATHERINE CORCORANAssociated PressMEXICO CITYWith the capture of two top drug lords in little more than a month, the new government of President Enrique Pena Nieto is following an old strategy it openly criticized for causing more violence and crime.
The Mexican army arrested Mario Armando Ramírez Treviño, leader of the Gulf cartel, Saturday morning. This cartel is one of the oldest in Mexico and based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is directly across from Brownesville, TX. In 2008, a federal
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security conceded that requests for asylum in the United States along the border between the United States and Mexico have more than doubled over the last three years. The federal government released the numbers
A body believed to be that of a Honduran national killed by Mexican drug cartel violence was seen floating in the Rio Grande river as a congressional delegation focused on border security matters visited the Texas/Mexico border. Congressman Leonard Lance
At the Otay crossing near the San Diego border last Monday, about 200 people coming from Mexico gained entry to the United States all using the same key phrase; they claimed they had a ‘credible fear’ of drug cartels. According
In an open letter to the public in late July, several retired Border Patrol agents wrote on behalf of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to warn that Mexican drug cartels are actively operating inside the United States
Breitbart News reported in April 2013 on declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents that detailed the business relationships between certain U.S. prison gangs and Mexican cartels. At the same time the claim of a secured border falls apart, a disturbing
Attorney General Eric Holder has been caught spending more than $4 million of taxpayer cash on extravagant travel over the past four years, according to documents uncovered by watchdog group Judicial Watch. In total, Holder accrued $4,263,704.01 in travel expenses between
Heavily-armed men assaulted Mexican federal police units in a carefully planned attack in which 22 people were killed, most of them assailants, in six towns, the government announced Tuesday. The gunmen concealed themselves in hills above checkpoints in Michoacan state,
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officer operated a two-year criminal enterprise along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Human smuggling, cocaine and marijuana trafficking, and bribery resulted in 108 months in prison for
The captured head of Mexico’s Los Zetas cartel is in fear of being tortured, according to a report from the U.K.’s Daily Mail. Miguel Angel Treviño has asked the courts in Mexico for special protections for fear that he will
(AFP) – Mexican marines captured Miguel Angel Trevino on Monday, the head of the country’s ultraviolent Zetas drug cartel. For a long time, Central American migrants were at risk of kidnapping and extortion by Mexico’s criminal organizations like Zetas. But
ALBUQUERQUE–U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill for two Mexican nationals to receive free housing, food, and healthcare. The two men were in the U.S. illegally and have received lengthy prison sentences for aiding a methamphetamine operation on U.S. soil. Had
After a Father’s Day weekend bloodbath in which 46 people were shot and eight were killed, including one by a police officer, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy have little to show for their claims of reduced
As left-of-center voices call for even less border security, a chilling report from U.S. law enforcement reveals an alleged Mexican cartel member claims he killed 30 individuals on U.S. soil. The confessed killer, Jose Manuel Martinez, is originally from Mexico but
Norfolk, Virginia — A Mexican national has been sentenced for participating in a large cocaine trafficking network on U.S. soil. Authorities say the operation was centered in Virginia but extended across the United States. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office’s
After having been deported back to Mexico, a man illegally returned to the United States and operated a shingle mill as a cover for a methamphetamine and gun running operation for Mexican cartels. He had four previous drug-related convictions on
(AP) – Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting
Klamath Falls, Oregon–Law enforcement officials thwarted a Mexican cartel-linked narcotics operation with a number of raids in the early morning hours of May 16, 2013. Officers made at least 38 arrests, then seized approximately four pounds of methamphetamine, over fifty
(AFP) – When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and
On Friday, Barack Obama traveled to Mexico and told the Mexican people that America is responsible for their country’s gun violence and drug cartel problems, stumped for his immigration reform agenda, and thanked Hispanics for electing him – all the
One of the top motivations for Mexican citizens coming to the United States is that there are more economic opportunities north of the border. After guest-workers were limited in the 1960’s, illegal entry into the United States increased substantially. The
